Scholar Presentations
"Religious Identity and the Buddhist Doctrine of No Self: Christian and Jewish Perspectives"
Held Wednesday, December 7 ~ 8:00pm
Quad 264
Presenters: John Keenan, Resident Scholar, and Harold Kasimow, Interfaith Scholar. John Merkle, moderator.
Co-sponsored by the Collegeville Institute and the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning
"Pure Act, Pure Love: The Extraordinary Story of the Poet Who Inspired Thomas Merton"
Held Monday, October 3 ~ 8:00pm
Abbey Chapter House
Presented by Michael McGregor
Co-sponsored by the Collegeville Institute and Saint John's Abbey
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"The Nun Mechthild: Martin Luther's Role Model of Faith
Held Wednesday, November 2 - 7:30pm
St. Benedict's Monastery Dining Room
Presented by Carolyn Schneider
Co-Sponsored by the Collegeville Institute, Saint Benedict's Monastery, SBM Studium, CSB/SJU Libraries
"Winning, Losing, and Playing the Game in the Ancient Greek Olympics"
As expectations and excitement build for the 2012 London Olympics, this presentation recounts where it all began. Nearly 3,000 years ago, on the western shores of the Peloponnesus in ancient Greece, a foot race competition was held. Just one race: a 200-yard dash. But as time went by, more events were added, eventually evolving into one of the most enduring and most popular institutions of the ancient world: the quadrennial Olympic Games. Take a step back into time, and find out about the earliest Olympic champions, and the events in which they competed. And-much like their modern counterparts in London-how intensely they strove for Olympic victory.
Held Wednesday, Nov. 9 ~ 7:00pm
Alumni Lounge, SJU
Presented by David Matz
Co-sponsored by the Collegeville Institute and the CSB/SJU Modern and Classical Languages Department
"Haunted Abbeys? Ill-fated Nuns? Damsels in distress?"
Held Wednesday, November 16 ~ 7:30pm
St. Benedict's Monastery Dining Room
In Northanger Abbey Jane Austen is wickedly funny as she lampoons the contemporary craze for Gothic fiction. Gothic novels of her time portrayed Catholics, and especially members of religious orders, as alien, exotic, superstitious, and extreme. In real life, the English Protestant majority distrusted and resented Catholics and limited their civil rights. Austen's own tolerant and sympathetic attitudes toward Catholicism, evident in her writings and biography, may surprise her readers of today.
Presented by Lauren Matz
Co-sponsored by the Collegeville Institute, St. Benedict's Monastery, SOT/DOT, English Department
"A Conversation with author Kathleen Norris"
Held Monday, November 28 ~ 8:00pm
Quad 264, SJU
Join Kathleen Norris, author of "Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and A Writer's Life" for a panel discussion on acedia (a state of being unable to care). Norris's presentation on acedia will be followed by responses from two monastics: Br. Paul Vincent Niebauer and S. Josue Behnen. Kathleen is serving as the 2011 Kilian McDonnell Writer-in-Residence at the Collegeville Institute.
Sponsored by the Collegeville Institute